Formidable Mobile Developer ’10Tons Ltd’ Embraces Windows 8

With the Windows 8 release tomorrow, Microsoft are aiming to bring about a new era of added touch screen integration into peoples lives. Adding a more user friendly interface that allows touch screen to be used with ever more ease on devices more mobile developers may be inclined to focus more on the Windows market. Microsoft hopes homogenizing their products will bring about more users across all of their platforms.

10Tons Ltd has had a great presence on mobile devices and only a minor one on Windows operating systems. They feel as a studio moving into this new era of operating systems that Windows 8 will allow them to create an either better presence on Windows based devices to include of course Desktops.

10Tons Ltd is an independent developer from Finland who have been creating many quality games over the 10 years they have been around. Over their time they have produced around 20 games of which seven are already available on the Windows Store.

Although the upcoming ARM based Windows 8 devices have proven to be difficult to get hold of. But never fear as 10Tons Ltd have worked tirelessly to create their games to work well on Intel based devices now in hot anticipation of the latest OS. Already 10 Tons Ltd have Windows 8 compatible games and they only anticipate more to come.

It will be interesting to see how many other mobile oriented studios begin to work on Windows based systems on the back of the latest OS. This coupled with increased accessibility of touch mechanics and the likes.

How many people really have a touch screen on their desktop however and will this really see Windows 8 becoming the latest “app” platform with the introduction of Windows 8 tablets and all future devices they have in store.

Only time will tell, what are you thoughts on Windows 8 overall and do you think it will help indie developers or hinder them? Comment below as I would be interested to see other viewpoints on their latest OS.

If you’re interested in seeing 10Tons Ltd complete catalogue of games check out their site here, and remember that they have many games on many platforms to suite all of your gaming needs.